PRivacy Policy

Venture Architects: Privacy and cookie statement

Venture Architects attaches great importance to the protection of the personal data of its clients and visitors to the website www.venture-architects.com (hereinafter: the website). In this privacy and cookie statement, we want to provide clear and transparent information about how we handle personal data.

We do everything we can to guarantee your privacy and therefore handle personal data with care. Venture Architects complies in all cases with the applicable laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation.  In any case, this means that we:

  • Process your personal data in accordance with the purpose for which it was provided, these purposes and type of personal data are described in this Privacy policy;
  • Limit the processing of your personal data to only those data that are minimally necessary for the purposes for which they are processed;
  • Ask for your explicit consent if we need it for the processing of your personal data;
  • Have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of your personal data;
  • Do not pass on personal data to other parties, unless this is necessary for the execution of the purposes for which they were provided;
  • To be aware of your rights regarding your personal data, to want to point this out to you and to respect them.

As Venture Architects, we are responsible for the processing of your personal data. If, after reading our Privacy Policy, or in a more general sense, you have questions about this or wish to contact us, you can do so via the contact details at the bottom of this document.

For what purposes and on what basis does Venture Architects process personal data?

Venture Architects processes your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To be able to contact you during the execution of our services or if you have requested us to do so;
  • Execution of the assignment;
  • Invoicing;
  • Administrative purposes;
  • Sending our newsletter if you have registered for this;
  • Analysis of website visitors.

What personal data does Venture Architects process?

Venture Architects processes personal data that you have provided in the context of the execution of the agreed assignment, to contact you for the answer to a question or to make an appointment, for sending a newsletter or of which it is clear that they are provided by you for processing by us.

Provision of personal data to third parties


Venture Architects does not share your personal data with third parties, unless this is necessary for the execution of the agreement (for example to the tax authorities), if you have explicitly given permission for this and / or to comply with any legal obligation.

Retention periods

Venture Architects does not store personal data longer than necessary for the purpose for which it was provided or is required by law. The exact retention period differs depending on the purpose for which you have provided your personal data to us.

Service

In the context of the execution of an assignment provided by you and for the invoicing of the services provided, Venture Architects processes the following personal data:

  • First and last name;
  • Gender;
  • Date of birth;
  • Birthplace;
  • Address;
  • Telephone number;
  • E-mail address;
  • Bank account numbers.

We process the following special and/or sensitive personal data:

  • Personal number (BSN);
  • We only process data of any children under the age of 16 with the express written consent of the parent, carer or legal representative.

We store this data for the period that you are a Venture Architects customer. From the date that you are no longer a customer, we will keep your data for another seven years, unless we need this data longer in the context of legal proceedings or if we have made different agreements with you about this.

 

Fill in the contact form

When filling in the contact form on the website, you give permission to use your contact details to contact you, for example, to answer a question or make an appointment. In this context, Venture Architects processes at least the following personal data:

  • First and last name;
  • Telephone number;
  • Email address.

We keep this data for a maximum of one year after we have contacted you and answered your question.

Subscribe to newsletter

If you sign up for our newsletter via the website or otherwise, Venture Architects processes the following personal data:

 

  • First and last name;
  • Telephone number;
  • Email address.

We keep this data until you unsubscribe from the newsletter or at the latest one year after we last sent you a newsletter.

Cookies

Cookies are small information files that can be automatically stored on or read from your device (including a computer, tablet or smartphone) when visiting a website. The information that a cookie obtains about your use of the website can be transferred to Venture Architects’s own secure servers or those of a third party.

On our website, cookies are used to:

  • enable functionalities of the website and to protect the website (technical or functional cookies);
  • analyse the use of the website and, on that basis, improve the website (analytical cookies);
  • to make it possible to share our website via social media (social media cookies).

You can opt out of cookies by setting your internet browser so that it no longer stores cookies. In addition, you can also delete all information previously stored via the settings of your browser.

Provision of personal data to third parties

Venture Architects does not share your personal data with third parties, unless this is necessary for the execution of the agreement (for example to the tax authorities), if you have explicitly given permission for this and / or to comply with any legal obligation.

Security of your data

We have taken appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against loss, misuse and unlawful processing. For example, we have taken the following measures:

  • All persons who can access your data on behalf of Venture Architects are obliged to maintain their confidentiality;
  • We have a username and password policy on all our systems;
  • We pseudonymize and ensure the encryption of personal data if there is reason to do so.

Links to third-party websites

The website contains links to third-party websites. This privacy and cookie statement does not apply to these third-party websites. We bear no responsibility for the way in which third-party websites handle your personal data and therefore advise you to read the privacy policies of the websites you visit through our website.

Your rights regarding your personal data

You have the right to inspect, rectify or delete the personal data that we have received from you. You can also object to the processing of your personal data (or part of it) by us or by one of our processors. You also have the right to have the data provided by you transferred by us to yourself or on your behalf directly to another party. If we are allowed to process your personal data on the basis of a permission given by you, you always have the right to withdraw this consent. We may ask you to identify yourself before we can respond to the aforementioned requests.

You can send a request for access, correction, deletion, data transfer of your personal data or request for withdrawal of your consent or objection to the processing of your personal data to hello@venture-architects.com.  We will process your request as soon as possible, but no later than within four weeks.

Complaints

If you have a complaint about the processing of your personal data, we ask you to contact us directly. If we cannot find a solution together with you, we will of course find this very annoying. You always have the right to file a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority, which is the supervisory authority in the field of privacy protection.

Alterations

We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy statement or cookie statement. Changes will be posted on our website.

Contact Us

The person responsible for the processing of personal data is:

Venture Architects (tradename of De Waaghals B.V.)
Dunantlaan 8
6721 AX Bennekom

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us via hello@venture-architects.com or via our contact form.

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